Ramez Naam

Ozone and climate are global issues, and it's hard to find a way in which the benefits of shutting down carbon emissions…

— Ramez Naam

TNC was once limited by the resources it could directly marshal to buy land. But teaching people a new idea is incredibly…

— Ramez Naam

If your incentives are set up wrong - if for some reason you reward people for behavior that's actually bad for your…

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When you're managing a large number of people, you learn that incentives matter tremendously. You really want people to be rewarded for…

— Ramez Naam

Whatever my current beliefs are, on any topic, they're all open to being changed by the right facts and the right evidence.

— Ramez Naam

If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says…

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By focusing on teaching businesses about the ROI they can achieve by preserving and investing in nature, you're expanding the scope of…

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New technology lets you grow the resource pie, which is the only way you can get out between that pincer of rising…

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Threats that could wipe out the bulk of life on earth abound. Planetary catastrophe could come in the form of a killer…

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I have an 'office,' technically. I never use it. I work on a couch in my living room, with my laptop on…

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The real use of AI in industry is generally for very narrow pattern-matchers - a better search algorithm, an object-detection algorithm, etc.…

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We must learn to set our emotions aside and embrace what science tells us. GMOs and nuclear power are two of the…

— Ramez Naam

I support GMOs. And we should label them. We should label them because that is the very best thing we can do…

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In a VR setting, you tilt your head up, and you really have the vertigo and the sense that it goes up…

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“We think of ourselves as individuals, but all that we have accomplished, and all that we will accomplish, is the result of…

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A new idea - whether it's a way to collect solar energy more efficiently or a cheaper way to desalinate sea water…

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I decided five years ago that I wanted to truly understand, for myself, what the state of the planet was, and when…

— Ramez Naam

In the end, I expect we'll have AI that is better than we are at nearly every narrow task but which are…

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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity…

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“who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you stare too long into the abyss, the abyss stares…

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Often we need to use policy to level the playing field, or to be sure that a technology is managed in a…

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Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical…

— Ramez Naam

If you want to feed the planet and keep the forests we have, you need to be able to grow roughly twice…

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Agriculture is the #1 source of deforestation. By some estimates it accounts for 80% of the forests chopped down in the tropics.

— Ramez Naam

I think the environmental movement is now so large and diverse that it's hard to talk of it as a single entity.

— Ramez Naam

“When you suffer, Ananda had told him, When you rage. When you weep. When you crave. That is when you must still…

— Ramez Naam

That, to me, is a kind of brilliant environmental ju-jitsu - using the energy of the market and the profit-motive to get…

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We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked…

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There are times that you have a plot in your head, but then you find that the characters don't want to do…

— Ramez Naam

There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,'…

— Ramez Naam

I do a lot of speaking about energy and environment. But that's more a second job than a hobby. Hobby-wise, I love…

— Ramez Naam

People are wired for lots of things. We're wired for novelty. We're wired for humor. We're wired for new pieces of information…

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Genetically modified organism (GMO) foods are feared and hated by environmentalists and the public alike. Yet the scientific assessment of GMOs is…

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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the…

— Ramez Naam

Neural implants could accomplish things no external interface could: Virtual and augmented reality with all five senses; augmentation of human memory, attention,…

— Ramez Naam

We've seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good governance, and good governance comes…

— Ramez Naam

The accumulated knowledge of materials, computing, electromagnetism, product design, and all the rest that we've learned over the last several centuries converts…

— Ramez Naam

When it comes to trying to manage how our entire planet-wide market and all the people and businesses in it deal with…

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I've tried Oculus Rift; I've played with the Steam VR rig. Both are mind-blowing. In a traditional video game setting, in a…

— Ramez Naam

'Brave New World' dealt with a kind of proto-genetic engineering of the unborn, through really, as many dystopias do, it dealt with…

— Ramez Naam